WASHINGTON - Police are looking for two people they say robbed a D.C. convenience store of cigarettes and threatened employees behind the counter with a hammer.

The incident happened around 10 p.m. Sunday at a 7-Eleven store on the 200 block of Cedar Street in the northwest.

Surveillance video shows two suspects, a man and woman, enter the store and take cigarettes from behind the counter.

On one point and employee enters an office area and returns with a hammer to confront the suspects. During a struggle, the hammer is taken by the female suspect who can be seen trying to strike an employee.

Both suspects fled the store with cigarettes, police say.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at (202) 727-9099 or text your tip to the Department's TEXT TIP LINE to 50411.